This postgraduate certificate in Children with Rheumatic Pain will give you the keys to adequate care for each patient and the necessary support to their families"

Childhood is not safe from rheumatologic disease (RD). Although it is difficult to know their exact prevalence, given the absence of specific and global studies, they are potentially serious diseases that lead to a significant decrease in the quality of life of the affected child. 

Comprehensive care for patients and their families, as a fundamental part of the process, is an essential condition in the approach to this group of diseases.

This postgraduate certificate offers a different look at the global care that Children with Rheumatic Disease need. A comprehensive approach that covers all aspects of this care: from pre- and post-diagnostic care to families, pharmacological criteria and psychological and emotional care for the affected person and their environment. A holistic approach that you will acquire throughout the most specific and comprehensive online program on the teaching market.

During this comprehensive program, professionals will have the opportunity to acquire the basic knowledge necessary to deal with the situations that arise around a child or adolescent suspected of having RMD. From the moment of diagnosis, with the development of the guidelines that the specialist must follow, to the information on procedures or attitudes to be avoided in this medical practice.

All aspects of the praxis of Children with Rheumatic Pain , with a global vision of the care of the affected patient, in the most complete postgraduate certificate on the online teaching market"

This postgraduate certificate in Children with Rheumatic Pain contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-assessment and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the program

The teachers of this postgraduate certificate have been selected on the basis of two fundamental criteria: their proven experience and knowledge of RD in pediatrics and their proven teaching skills"

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities. 

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to learn in real situations. 

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the professional will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

Our innovative telepractice concept gives you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which will allow you to assimilate the concepts faster and from a real professional perspective: “learning from an expert”

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this postgraduate certificate will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

TECH's objective is to prepare highly competent professionals, who possess the most up-to-date knowledge and techniques in the medical field. A goal that, in just six months, you will be able to achieve with a highly intensive and precise postgraduate certificate.

Acquire up-to-date knowledge in the treatment of children's rheumatic pain with the medical elite"

General Objectives

• Distinguish between different types of musculoskeletal problems in children, approach them and refer them if necessary
• Treat them from different points of view, medical, psychological or physical, or at least to interpret the suitability of applied treatments
• Discuss whether a treatment was sufficiently effective
• Know which attitudes, treatments and strategies are inappropriate and should be avoided
• Prevent illness and complications
• Recognize basic needs and refer to specialized resources
• Identify social and environmental factors and reflect on the impact they have on the quality of life of patients and their families

Specific Objectives

• Recognize pain in children or adolescents with RMD as the most frequent problem
• Identify the manifestations of pain in the patient
• Recognize the consequences of the patient's pain in the family environment
• Distinguish the most common and the rarest causes of pain in the different body regions of the musculoskeletal system
• Identify inappropriate initial management
• Review pharmacological treatments
• Observe treatments common to different conditions
• Review practical aspects of medication
• Define the adverse effects of medications
• Follow the evolution of a pharmacological treatment in children and adolescents
• Provide a psychological approach to patients and their families in the treatment of RMDs
• Know the indication of physical exercise as a rehabilitation technique
• Recognize the opportunity of orthopedic surgery
• Describe the appropriate nutritional guidelines
• Distinguish the different existing social supports
• Review vaccination schedules
• Choose the specific preventive attitudes according to the diseases and treatments
• Recognize osteoporosis in children and its necessary consideration

You will be able to prevent diseases and complications by diagnosing the focus of childhood rheumatic pain thanks to this TECH postgraduate certificate"